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The scrapping of the Nimrod programme has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many a year. For most of i...

On 12th October 1967, Cyprus Airways flight 284 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Kastellorizo with the loss of all 66 passenge...

The air base at Waddington has been home to the RAF’s most valuable surveillance, intelligence-gathering, communications and electronic warfare ass...

Airline Fleets 2024 Lyn Buttifant and Chris Chatfield - Editors in conjunction with the Air-Britain News Team This year’s edition of Airline Fleets...

For over 75 years, London Airport (Heathrow) has been Britain’s No.1 international airport. For the first 30 years of its life, most of the movemen...

Description Area 51, a top-secret military installation hidden in the desert northwest of Las Vegas, has been shrouded in mystery since 1955. Now,...

The history of Swissair began in 1931 through the consolidation of two airlines, Ad Astra Aero and Balair, and the national airline became known fo...

When de Havilland conceived the DH.125 as a replacement for its successful Dove and Heron, it could not have expected that more than 1,700 would be...

The lineage of VQ-1's World Watchers can be traced back to two PBY-5A Catalina Black Cats modified for electronic reconnaissance during World War I...